BAGHDAD, Dec. 15 (Xinhua) -- Two policemen were killed on Sunday in an attack by Islamic State (IS) militants in Iraq's northern province Kirkuk, the Iraqi military said.
In Kirkuk, IS militants opened fire with machine guns on a vehicle of federal policemen in the southern part of the oil-rich province, killing two aboard, the media office of Iraqi Joint Operations Command said in a statement.
In a separate incident, the security forces acted on intelligence reports and raided a hideout at a house on the border between Iraq's eastern province of Diyala and Baghdad, Alaa al-Saadi, a local policeman in Diyala, said.
The troops captured six suspects at the hideout who were said to be responsible of kidnapping dozens of civilians and military personnel, al-Saadi said.
The security situation in Iraq has been improved since Iraqi security forces fully defeated the extremist IS militants across the country late in 2017.
However, IS remnants have since melted in urban areas or resorted to deserts and rugged areas, carrying out frequent guerilla attacks against security forces and civilians.
